---
type: "Bill"
title: "Substance Abuse and Mental Health Care"
description: "Substance Abuse and Mental Health Care ; Expands mental health crisis services to include the 988 suicide and crisis lifeline call center; authorizes a guardian advocate to be discharged when a patient is discharged from involuntary outpatient services; requires clinical psychologists who make determinations of involuntary placement at certain mental health facilities to have specified clinical experience; authorizes a designated facility to retain a patient for the remainder of a specified timeframe under certain circumstances."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1091"
citation: "Florida HB 1091 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-143"
primary_sponsors: ["Gonzalez Pittman"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 45
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-25"
last_action: "2025-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a75a39b8-a08f-49e9-9b07-ffcbf2a84141"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1091/ByCategory"
source_hash: "48a61a0e431d4420395c07e73d171c09b4bc65619283faae47363a667873c782"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
---

# Florida HB 1091 (2025) — Substance Abuse and Mental Health Care

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Care ; Expands mental health crisis services to include the 988 suicide and crisis lifeline call center; authorizes a guardian advocate to be discharged when a patient is discharged from involuntary outpatient services; requires clinical psychologists who make determinations of involuntary placement at certain mental health facilities to have specified clinical experience; authorizes a designated facility to retain a patient for the remainder of a specified timeframe under certain circumstances.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-143.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **H 1091 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1091/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1091 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1091/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1091 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1091/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 1091 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1091/BillText/e1/PDF)
5. **H 1091 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1091/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gonzalez Pittman — primary (person)
- Health & Human Services Committee — primary (organization)
- Human Services Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
- Valdés — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-02-25** Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-04** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2025-03-05** Referred to Human Services Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Referred to Health Care Budget Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Now in Human Services Subcommittee
- **2025-03-14** PCS added to Human Services Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-03-18** Favorable with CS by Human Services Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-20** Reported out of Human Services Subcommittee
- **2025-03-20** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-03-20** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-20** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-03-21** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-21** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
- **2025-04-11** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- **2025-04-15** Favorable with CS by Health & Human Services Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-16** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- **2025-04-16** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-04-16** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-04-17** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-17** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/24/2025)
- **2025-04-17** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-24** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-24** In Messages
- **2025-04-25** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-25** Received `enrolled`
- **2025-04-29** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-29** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-29** Substituted for CS/CS/CS/SB 1240
- **2025-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-29** Amendment(s) adopted (558074)
- **2025-04-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-29** In Messages
- **2025-04-30** Senate Message List
- **2025-04-30** Amendment 558074 Concur
- **2025-04-30** CS passed as amended; YEAS112 , NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-30** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-06-12** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-13** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-16** Chapter No. 2025-143

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a75a39b8-a08f-49e9-9b07-ffcbf2a84141`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).